BUDGET/POLITICS: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday [4-26-17] evening that the funding bill under negotiation still has ’70 poison pills’ that the Democratic Party can’t live with.
Pelosi, on CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper,’ said that despite the remaining differences, the two parties had made substantial progress and she does not foresee a government shutdown — at least ‘not this week.’
‘The Democrats are determined that we will not have a government shutdown,’ the California Democrat said. ‘If we need a one-week extension in order to pass it on the floor, the legislative part of it, I think we’re OK with that.’ “
-Eli Watkins, “Pelosi: Government funding bill still has ’70 poison pills’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 26, 2017 10:34pm